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• Serve as Program Team Leader for the statewide Extension Water Resources Team. Coordinate program planning, stakeholder research, marketing plans, team member efforts, and program evaluation.• Design and implement successful pilot 4-H Stream Teams Program, an innovative three-stage youth water education program, throughout the state of Pennsylvania by recruiting and training volunteers via online training webinars, video recordings, and social media.• Create and facilitate biennial… Show more • Serve as Program Team Leader for the statewide Extension Water Resources Team. Coordinate program planning, stakeholder research, marketing plans, team member efforts, and program evaluation.• Design and implement successful pilot 4-H Stream Teams Program, an innovative three-stage youth water education program, throughout the state of Pennsylvania by recruiting and training volunteers via online training webinars, video recordings, and social media.• Create and facilitate biennial Youth Water Educators Summits (Dive Deeper) for formal and non-formal educators from across the Mid-Atlantic US, including management of corporate and non-profit sponsorships and collaborative steering committees.• Develop and coordinate a volunteer corps to participate in streamside restoration projects throughout the Lower Susquehanna Basin; create and maintain a budget funded by a National Fish and Wildlife grant, foster major partnerships and collaborations with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, municipalities, and local conservancies.• Develop new Watershed Decisions educational materials for teaching about watersheds to adults and older youth; for-sale version produced and now available. Proceeds support continued development and production of the activity.• Develop online video presentations about the role of water in the Marcellus Shale gas drilling process using grant funding obtained with teammates. Show less

• Develop curriculum and training for adults and youth in various topics, including animal and environmental sciences, quality assurance and ethics and communication• Coordinate the Erie county 4-H Youth Development Program for over 150 adult volunteers and over 4,000 youth ages 5-19, including youth outdoors field days and shooting sports programs.• Facilitate fundraising; including grant writing, contracts & database management.• Supervise summer intern program assistants… Show more • Develop curriculum and training for adults and youth in various topics, including animal and environmental sciences, quality assurance and ethics and communication• Coordinate the Erie county 4-H Youth Development Program for over 150 adult volunteers and over 4,000 youth ages 5-19, including youth outdoors field days and shooting sports programs.• Facilitate fundraising; including grant writing, contracts & database management.• Supervise summer intern program assistants, complete confidential screening process for all adult volunteers and coordinate several formal advisory committees.• Co-chaired the state 4-H Environmental Sciences Curriculum Committee. Show less

• Assistance with completion of park resource management plan, including aquatic and woodland plant field identification to generate resource management lists• Write and implement environmental education programs, specifically lake monitoring and stream monitoring programs, to school groups (K-12) and the general public in a park education center• Host a summer Adult Field Learning Experience series including local plant ID courses and GPS navigational courses. Provide educational… Show more • Assistance with completion of park resource management plan, including aquatic and woodland plant field identification to generate resource management lists• Write and implement environmental education programs, specifically lake monitoring and stream monitoring programs, to school groups (K-12) and the general public in a park education center• Host a summer Adult Field Learning Experience series including local plant ID courses and GPS navigational courses. Provide educational programs to public through outside organizations such as Women in the Outdoors, Boy Scouts of America and County Parks.• Serve as State Park representative to the Upper Tohickon Watershed Association and assist with volunteer stream monitoring and local conservation projects. Show less